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If you want some short story experience, definitely check out In Other Waters. It was made by the author of Citizen Sleeper. It is smaller in its scope and less replayable, but still very nice.

UPD: Not short stories, but story-rich games with time limit and replayability: provided you haven’t played them, you should definitely try Pathologic 2 and Disco Elysium

The same way as with tolerating open fascists, just letting them be around as long as they’re “nice” will give them ample opportunity to spread their propaganda in a more covert way. Some things will look innocuous enough and won’t be cleaned up, other will create drama on being moderated, so the mods might have harder time deciding. This won’t break their echo chamber, as such things existed even in the ever-open reddit. Just cut them off, it will be better both for the communists around, and for the “non-ideological” crowd.

The non ideological crown doesn’t exist.

I’m not the first day in this, which is why I’ve put it in scare quotes. And I think exposing unwitting apathetic liberals to tankies is bad. Not platforming fascists is good, defederating from far-right and tankie instances empowers the left.

The modern leftist discourse is full of anti-Western sentiment. Which is good and deserved, but this also means there’s a larger susceptibility towards fascist propaganda, when this propaganda is directed against the hegemon. In addition to that, the thalassocratic nature of the American empire makes most leftist much less heuristically equipped to tackle issues of differently structured empires. These factors bolster development of tankie sentiment, ranging from genuine leftists supporting fascism to genuine fascists who love left-sounding rhetoric.

So if you’re coddling fascists in your community, don’t cry suppression when anti-fascists stop associating with you as well. You can just drop the community which engages in this and move elsewhere. If you’re still okay with that, then other people’s concerns about you were justified.

Why would anyone do that? Wokeness is rad and cool, while tankies love to do fascist apologia, which is highly unwoke

“My terminally online movement is not full of fascists and useful idiots parroting fascist propaganda because of, uhm, history” Yes, tell me again about the freikorps while every day I see another hazoid being besties with Nazis, or being a fascist themselves.

Non-sequitur, I have nothing to reply to

I don’t know if you’re a fascist, I’m currently not interested enough to go checking.

how you call me terminally online

Because you’re on Lemmy defending legacy of a pejorative identifier when confronted with the fact that the modern online tankie community has produced a number of fascist-aligned notable persons over the last years, and keeps spreading and regurgitating fascist propaganda because of the common alignment against the West.

The history is important. In this conversation, history is irrelevant. Stop making it about your honor

“Please stop pointing out we’re friends with fascists, it hurts our feefees. Don’t you know that muh history means I’m very cool and honorable despite being an internet warrior”.

You’re one step removed from a nationalist. Except you’re feeding your insecurity with a different flavour of a myth.

You’re not beating the allegations, you’re treating this the same way a nationalist would. If you don’t see the irrelevance of historical anecdotes here, well, I guess that explains why you’re a tankie.

Please learn reading comprehension